After trial and error, Mexican fishers find key to reforesting a mangrove haven
When David Borbón first arrived in the village of El Delgadito in 1980, it was a paradise with seemingly unlimited natural resources. He continued to return seasonally to fish for lobster, sea bass...
View Article‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers
It might not come as much of a surprise that Tony’s Chocolonely has expressed its support for the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR). The Dutch chocolate maker is known as much for...
View ArticleNepal PM sums up 2024 shift away from conservation: ‘Fewer tigers, less forest’
KATHMANDU — Nepal has too many tigers and too much forest, according to the country’s leader. The offhand remarks by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli at a Dec. 26 event in Kathmandu on climate change...
View ArticleConservationists and nature defenders who died in 2024
The world lost many conservationists, Indigenous leaders, and environmentalists in 2024. Their lives were devoted to safeguarding the planet’s biodiversity, protecting vulnerable communities, and...
View ArticleIPBES report highlights Indigenous & local knowledge as key to...
Indigenous and local knowledge systems’ ability to nurture human-nature interconnection can play an important role in creating the type of transformative change needed to address the underlying causes...
View ArticleThe particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and...
The modern history of internal migration in Colombia began in a manner that was not unlike the processes organized by the governments in Brazil and the other Andean countries in the 1960s and early...
View ArticleTonkin sub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one
Conservationists searching for Vietnam’s critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, one of the world’s most threatened primates, have found no sign of the species in one of the two forest patches...
View ArticleNew year, new pygmy hippo: A naming poll for this Virginia zoo baby is underway
Moo Deng and Haggis are joined by another slick, round supreme on the scene. Fans of the new baby can cast their vote to name her until New Year’s Eve, with the winning name announced the next day....
View ArticleLost city found by accident and a fly’s brain mapped: 2024’s scientific wins
Reuters A total solar eclipse seen by millions, a lost jungle city discovered by accident and hope for the almost extinct northern white rhino – science has given us a lot to get excited about this...
View ArticleA year of extreme weather that challenged billions
Hasan Jedi/Getty Images Climate change has brought record-breaking heat this year, and with it extreme weather, from hurricanes to month-long droughts. This year is expected to be the hottest on...
View ArticleRainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds
As 2025 dawns, here is a look at some of the storylines that could shape the fate of tropical forests this year. More reading: The year in tropical rainforests: 2024 How geopolitics could impact...
View ArticleMarine protection efforts in 2024 were still a drop in the ocean
In 2022, the world agreed at a U.N. biodiversity summit to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030. While protected areas already account for almost 15% of the planet’s land, protection for the...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia in review: 2024
2024 was a year marked by a COP climate summit so dismal that many governments and analysts questioned whether the annual meetings are even worth holding. While world leaders failed to secure...
View ArticleAstronomers ready for dazzling but brief celestial show after 80-year wait
BBC/Tony Jolliffe On a cold February night in 1946, a 15-year-old schoolboy made a surprising discovery as he peered out of his bedroom window. Michael Woodman, a keen amateur astronomer from Newport,...
View ArticleIndigenous runners complete seven-month journey for Mother Earth and solidarity
SILVANIA, Colombia — On a warm but overcast afternoon, hundreds of Indigenous representatives and spiritual leaders gathered to witness a remarkable convergence of native nations from across the...
View ArticleTortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar
This is the second story on radiated tortoise conservation in southern Madagascar. Read Part One here. TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Acting on a tip from a village informant, Fabian met a colleague at the...
View ArticleSea change for soy champion Brazil as it wrestles with EUDR compliance
Earlier this year, commodity-trading giant Cargill exported a shipment of soy from Brazil to Europe, aiming to test whether it would comply with the European Union’s new regulation on...
View ArticleIn DRC bid to grow more food, smallholders are overshadowed by industrial...
BUDJALA, Democratic Republic of Congo — “We are in a province with an agropastoral vocation,” says Jean Guillaume Ngbanga Masolo, provincial inspector for agriculture in South Ubangi province. From...
View ArticleThe Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage
In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon Rainforest, for the COP30 United Nations climate summit. For many conservationists and diplomats,...
View ArticleA deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority
In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning the ground for signs of jaguar activity. He wasn’t looking for the big cats themselves;...
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